Bug#857132: console-setup (again) stopped to apply font at startup

Karsten Hilbert

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Mar 8, 2017, 6:10:03 AM3/8/17

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Package: console-setup
Version: 1.163
Severity: important

Hi,

console-setup just stopped to apply font settings during startup. This
happened before and was fixed about a year ago:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759657

Maybe not the same reason but the faulty behaviour is back...

Manually running

systemctl restart console-setup.service

fixes the problem until the next reboot.

Thanks for looking into the issue,
Karsten

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.10.0-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-setup-linux 1.163
ii debconf 1.5.60
ii keyboard-configuration 1.163
ii xkb-data 2.19-1

console-setup recommends no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.24-9
ii lsb-base 9.20161125

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.60
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-3+b1

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.47
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59.9
ii kbd 2.0.3-2+b1
ii keyboard-configuration 1.163

console-setup-linux suggests no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
pn console-common <none>
pn console-data <none>
pn console-tools <none>
pn gnome-control-center <none>
ii kbd 2.0.3-2+b1
ii systemd 232-18

-- debconf information:
console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
* console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
* keyboard-configuration/model: Generische PC-Tastatur mit 105 Tasten (Intl)
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
keyboard-configuration/layout:
console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
console-setup/guess_font:
console-setup/framebuffer_only:
* console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
console-setup/use_system_font:
keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: de
* keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
console-setup/fontsize: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
* keyboard-configuration/variant: Deutsch - Deutsch (ohne Akzenttasten)
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
keyboard-configuration/optionscode:
keyboard-configuration/other:
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
* console-setup/fontface47: Terminus
keyboard-configuration/variantcode: nodeadkeys
* keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: de(nodeadkeys)
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch

Anton Zinoviev

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Mar 8, 2017, 8:00:03 AM3/8/17

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On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 12:02:45PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>
> console-setup just stopped to apply font settings during startup.

Does this system has some read-only file systems?

Anton Zinoviev

Karsten Hilbert

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Mar 8, 2017, 9:00:03 AM3/8/17

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On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:

>> console-setup just stopped to apply font settings during startup.
>
> Does this system has some read-only file systems?

Not that I am aware of, no.

Karsten
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Davor Rotim

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Mar 16, 2018, 10:20:02 AM3/16/18

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Hello,

it's been also over a year since I've been plagued by this issue but I
managed to solve it by purging the console-setup cache every time on
shutdown with the following service file:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
[Unit]
Description=Cleanup console-setup cache

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=true
ExecStop=/bin/bash -c "rm /etc/console-setup/cached_*"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Bug #892900 piqued my interest because then my font actually started
applying on boot so I was dismayed when another update reverted the
condition (or rather fixed that bug). This fix naturally produces some
warnings:

Mar 16 14:52:10 lambda [280]: failed to execute '/etc/console-setup/cached_setup_font.sh' '/etc/console-setup/cached_setup_font.sh': No such file or directory
Mar 16 14:52:10 lambda systemd-udevd[265]: Process '/etc/console-setup/cached_setup_font.sh' failed with exit code 2.

So I guess it would be nice if one was able to disable this cache
generation somehow cleaner (or rather force it to refresh).

Igor Posledov

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Apr 18, 2018, 6:00:03 AM4/18/18

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--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
[Unit]
Description=Cleanup console-setup cache

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=true
ExecStop=/bin/bash -c "rm /etc/console-setup/cached_*"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks! This helped solve the problem.

The only thing that slightly corrected, it replaced "rm /etc/console-setup/cached_*" by "/bin/rm /etc/console-setup/cached_*"

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Валерий Заподовников

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Aug 24, 2020, 9:40:03 AM8/24/20

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An interesting moment here: font is applied correctly when you use HD resolution (3440x1440) in my case, you need UEFI boot for Nvdia and change to auto resolution grub. Only when you use low resolution the problem shows itself. Also apparently default font does not support cyrillic unicode... LOL.

Felix Joel

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